U.N. Approves Military Airstrikes on Libya

3/17/2011 7:23PM

The United Nations Security Council authorized military strikes on Libya Thursday evening, and U.S. and European officials said air attacks against Col. Moammar Gadhafi's forces were possible "within hours." WSJ's John Bussey and Kelsey Hubbard discuss.

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John Bussey and John we know that that that that does the ten nations against the euro against five of staving of Russia China and Germany ... were three of those five hours when it gets from the other two how surprising is that it was exactly one of the waves of its total but at the end of the day and it ... going right ... and you saw Peter China leading the Security Council meeting ... right before the meeting is that they would generally move quickly here ... on the Omidi since this is that you have those five abstentions but they were kind of ... had state agreements to ... what's to happen now as they can very easily said no way ... and we are getting reports that military strength could happen in Libya with in our ... view is really moving what that's right the US is said that were set up five to start strikes ... in mind you this coming week celebrated because sense was that the was much time lots that are rivals for retreating in the reckoning ... very badly beaten in the field ... that's and very soothing Gaza Vodafone also to Gadhafi FXI you know they're a lot of people are saying is this too little too late that saddled with so much focus ... and attention on what was happening with the disaster Japan ... that perhaps ... God ... Colonel Gadhafi was allowed to take back some of the troubled city that had fallen ... and now the sort of on the upswing and that of on its back fever today I think really think that's right was to be tougher now write because he has exactly uses say use to read Jane Lane ... what's on the deal was due to start now is ... the the forces us primarily demolishing ... of the ground defenses of Ghadafi ... and then after that dealing with it AirPlay is known to do with the tax because the U N resolution ... allows the forces to protect civilians audit was necessary so it's not just ... creating a no-fly zone it's creating an environment which ... the civilian targeted at the top ... on and that means that this baby airstrikes most likely on ground forces Ghadafi and the United States in the inner reputation in the Middle East right now and all were committed to ... Afghanistan and Iraq how port and that the Arab nation take the lead here in some of that in some of the iPad Elbaz to discredit the rights of the Arab League voted in favor of the no-fly so they gave us ... the beginning of some political cover ... and now the UN has voted in favor of its La lemak I completed it ... of you in the US is also in the other European nations of the Savior of countries that are in favor of this you can do more you've got in ... at least show some affirmative action against Gadhafi ... trials Levenson has just posted a story on WSJ's dot com ... out of the Mideast this is in fact Egypt is doing that that Egypt is now supplying arms to the rebels of Libya ... and that's very significant the US apparently knew about this ... it's very significant showing again affirmative action by an Arab country ... are against it off ... the stick with it to sit on this point that I will copy it is not going to remain ... in power at that and they seem to be there are very united effort to oust him at this time write what what's the right this is big forces that are coming against him now but this is made with my lots of it was over once the bond of the Nazi eighty six ... he's been around a long time so we decide which witnesses to fall to be politically might happen ... um you know that causes the forces that have to be pulled back ... of but if you were to look at it in you were to look at the UN forces ... and the European forces raid against one can ... you say that he said ... in a deep trouble ... probably say that one of the to the main important aspect of this is really protecting the civilian population right now because the coffee has said that if foreign involvement becomes ... a part of this that he will attack civilian ... targets civilian people and that that that really make this ... a serious the situation for them yet as right to lead the Raiders traded and this was one of the issues with that seat to the U S and Europe standby as he tried to finish his advance across Libya ... and slaughtered all the people but that the rate themselves against Ghadafi ... and that would've that would happen ... but Gadhafi's gone further than that he said the market or just you know final round ... of the targets and that its rating on so you better watch out in a word I was you initiate force against me ... I will initiate force against a target of the Ceridian ... commercial shipping for example of that you may not like that that the dissent says that he has a military that ... up until ... two thousand he notes revealed he had been going through years and years of embargo ... has been weakened as a result of that ... as of the senses that that of unbilled the high able to be taken on fairly quickly ... well I say ... having a lot of this is great in Ceduna and wonder what your thoughts are what the ... count of power can be a MENT from a DirecTV doesn't mean really ... how would you think is going through the minds of the of ... the politicians morale of Obama right now in terms of what could happen now that military forces them to get a great deal of insight and that's been present since all this began in the Mideast and North Africa ... of what comes after Ghadafi added BBC Gadhafi there was Scott EBA's states this year ... in the country ... well do you get a rebel group that is out of a mixed bag of our politics ... perhaps is what has long been a little more fundamentalist ... Islam is ... is is something that Egypt's can live with high is something that other neighbors can get with ... this sense was that ... at a minimum whatever comes after Ghadafi will be an improvement because the volatility that ... Ghadafi is injected into that part of the world was just too great for the financial community content with ... Empress Elite blog about what's been happening with the oil markets and how the threat of a Vauxhall they have and I didn't expect that to continue as it perhaps some ... aggression happened within hours for hearing it can take longer we don't know but I wouldn't think will happen on them yet that ends in a defence of what happens to the oil installations as well and what Ghadafi does with your own slice insisted that battle now ... it takes place did they get damaged if not to damage ... um Ghadafi's operating right now on percentage so ... countries the ants and companies cannot do business on the Wealthfront with Ghadafi ... if these removed from the scene ... that would suggest that the oil environment that includes Libya's substantial exports of the world ... on normalized and that's good for the markets ... and what ... of the U S recovery NAHB's that were spoken in Afghanistan and Iraq this is another military front the path for taking on an innocent the drill bit mixed up with ethical other people ... thought it might not come to the fact that whatever the make of this and that didn't get us of military ability to do that yet ... either the Pentagon is probably sweating support so this is so big and currencies fifty thousand troops in Iraq over a hundred thousand in Afghanistan an aircraft carrier off the coast ... of Japan helping with the nuclear crisis ... and the Unitarian effort there ... along with a lot of other ships off with Japan what what a lot of greens up from on its bases in ... Japan and now yet another front for the US ... is substantial minutes of ... probably ... don't looking back to those few times in U S history were weak and so stretched over four big ... efforts like this time thank you so much done for joining us we appreciate and of course continue to live on the beest dot com for continuing coverage ... of what's going on in Libya across all the information and then is that that happening ... across the